Re: Microsoft to announce buyout of Informix
Date: 1997/05/21
Message-ID: <mtugzQ3ULvaX092yn_at_newshost.micro.ti.com>#1/1
In article <33826713.2D04_at_mindspring.com>,
Tom Wilson <tdwilson_at_mindspring.com> wrote:
>James McGovern wrote:
>>
>> When your look at INFORMIX over the last five or so years, think of all
>> the products that have been brought to market by INFORMIX.... Now think
>> of how much the market has taken up the offering's.... How much
>> resources do you think it takes to bring a product to market ? How long
>> do you think it takes to return an overall profit on the product ? .....
>> I'm guessing they have lost heaps of doe ray me over the last few years
>> because of diversification.
>>
>> One thing is certain, When money in the door slows down and money out
>> the door speeds up your asking for a takeover and I can't think of any
>> other company that has the proven record in software development like
>> Microsoft. When you think Captain Billy boy has taken the idea of
>> creating a dos for dummies environment and ran with it and now look at
>> the giant he has made. I can't wait to see what will happen with
>> INFORMIX and thank god we all have the opportunity to be there at the
>> start.
>
>I think a more likely target for Microsoft would be Sybase. After all,
>MS SQL Server is rooted in the Sybase kernel and their API interface is
>still Sybase's DBLib. And while Sybase stock isn't stinking it up like
>Informix, they definitely have their problems.
Why should Microsoft turn benevolent after all this time. Their arrogance with their in-house products gives a NIH syndrome. Now, if Microsoft ONLY had MS Access, and no other database product, then maybe. The gap between SQL Server (or whatever they are calling it today) and the PC versions of Informix or Sybase database servers are not that large. The real differences exist in the Unix versions of these products. Microsoft has shown little or no interest in pursueing the needs of the Unix market to date.
Robert Gammon
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Received on Wed May 21 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST